Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 800
ding ding dong.

Tinkling, the sound flows like the wind and turbulent like a stream, it is the sound of the bells on the reindeer's neck.

Alcani yelled, and the majestic reindeer pulled the sleigh and galloped. The dense jungle and thick snow were all too familiar to the elves in the forest.

Zhu Rongjie wrapped himself tightly in mink fur, even his face was covered, only two eyes were exposed, the biting cold wind here was a bit unbearable for him, he felt like his whole body would freeze if he took a breath into his lungs Same.

"As long as there is no snowstorm, winter is not terrible!"

Alkani are Evanni people, this is their own name, and in Zhu Rongjie's view, they are no different from those Saurons who call themselves Ewenki, and even some other tribes that herd reindeer and ride in reindeer carts. It should be collectively called the Shilu Department.

Some tribes, such as Feiyaka and Hezhe, who live by the sea and rivers and mainly fish, basically have the habit of keeping dogs. In winter, dogs pull sleds or ice plows. They can be collectively called the dog department, which is simple and clear. , Compared with this one and that one, how can I remember it.

The rivers and seas have been frozen, and the pioneering fleet is also driving Dumei to stop for the winter, but the tribesmen can't stay idle. The cold winter is also the best hunting season, especially when the king showed them the exquisite goods Afterwards, they were all moved, especially those prices that they felt were very real.

When the dynasty saw that they wanted to return to the tribe, even hunting, they also held a meeting with the team members to discuss, and finally decided to send some team members to follow them to their tribe and go hunting together, bringing various hunting nets and traps prepared in advance. New tools, as well as tribe hunters recruited from Vladivostok, Yongning City and other places.

Zhu Rongjie is an official from the fifth rank, and he is still a civil servant. He can't come out, but he is still willing to follow outside and go deep into the tribe to explore.

He took a team of pioneers to translate the Evan tribe in Alkani. Their tribe is a forest tribe. They mainly shoot and hunt as well as fish. They also raise reindeer. In winter, they will drive the reindeer to the top of the mountain. The tundra zone to eat moss, lichen.

Alkani and the others live in the area of ​​the Ulia River. In summer, they nomad and hunt in the mountains and forests by the river. They can also fish, and they go to the mountains in autumn and winter.

There are four clans in Hara, 75 households, more than 300 people, and more than 600 reindeer.

The Evans call the deer Oren, their best companion, their means of transport, the boat of the forest, and their food.

The Evan people are mobile, and their Hara is probably in the area of ​​the Uriah River, but even so, the living area is still huge.

Zhu Rongjie felt lost a long time ago, the same forest and the same snow everywhere, but the reindeer was pulling several sleigh carts galloping through the forest, as if it would never end.

There was no trace of people, but Alkany said that they would never get lost, just like they would never lose their own deer. They put the deer in the forest and put them on the mountain, sometimes tens of miles apart, and it was the same. turn up.

After several days of walking in the forest and snowfield, Zhu Rongjie could not find his way. Fortunately, the sleigh he stayed in was a luxury version, with a small canopy on top, a stove inside, and a deerskin mat. Wearing a sable fur coat kept him from being so cold. He even regretted coming out in this place where he had to pee with a stick.

From the fourth day onwards, they finally arrived at the Ulia River from the city of Qudumei, and then Arkanni was not in a hurry. The entire river basin was considered the territory of their Evanni. Clan Hara, where they can hunt and fish.

"There are a lot of wild animals here, such as tigers, black bears, bobcats, minks, etc. Generally, we don't hunt tigers, unless they attack you, you can kill them as a last resort. Tigers are the king of the forest, so be in awe."

While speaking, he stopped suddenly and raised his finger to signal everyone to silence.

Listen carefully.

Then he got off the sleigh quietly, and walked into the depths of the woods lightly. After a while, he called out, "A musk deer."

He came out carrying his prey.

Zhu Rongjie got down from the car, looked at the prey curiously, and was shot by Al Kani with an arrow.

The eyes are big and the head is small, the hind legs are longer than the front legs, the tail is short, and the hair is prickly to the touch. It looks a bit like a deer in dark brown.

"male."

Arkani was very happy, and he took out the dagger that Zhu Rongjie gave him and started to clean up the musk deer. He skillfully began to skin the musk deer, and his movements were extremely fast.

"It's cold, so the skin must be peeled off as soon as possible, otherwise it will freeze in a while, and it won't be able to peel off."

He peeled off the skin three times and five times, and carefully took another thing to Zhu Rongjie, "This is a sachet, it will become musk after drying, but it is a good thing, only male musk deer can have it."

Zhu Rongjie naturally knew about musk, which pregnant women should not touch, but it has great uses in some aspects and is very precious. It is both a traditional Chinese medicine and a spice.

Musk is divided into forest musk deer, horse musk deer and original musk deer. The original musk deer is produced in the Northeast. Up to two liang, a catty of musk generally ten to eleven.

But in the Central Plains, musk is seriously adulterated. Merchants often use red sandalwood to grind powder, stir-fry the powder with beef and sheep blood liver, and pour it through the navel of musk.Generally, the bigger the musk, the more expensive it is, and the longer it is aged, so merchants often adulterate small musk to make big musk.

Collecting musk in the border market usually costs more than ten taels of silver for every tael of musk. It is divided into specifications according to size. One hundred taels.

This thing is like old ginseng, the heavier the better.

And the merchants in the side market collect it and ship it back to the mainland, and the price is even higher. Whether it is used for medicine, spices, or perfume, it is more expensive than gold of equal weight.

"This musk deer must be about ten years old. It's old, but this sachet is very good. It's at least two taels after drying." Al Kani said as he gave it to Zhu Rongjie.

Zhu Rongjie heard that it would cost two taels if dried, so he calculated in his heart that the official exchange rate of one tael of gold for silver was 32 to 100, that is, 200 taels of silver.However, these two taels are considered to be high-standard, and the value after drying is estimated to be [-] taels, maybe [-] taels.

This is very precious.

He smiled and said, "It's a good thing. I'll take it. There is a market in Yongning City to buy musk. One tael is 16 taels of silver. Less than one tael and more than half a tael are cheaper, and those under half a tael are even cheaper. And more than one tael to two taels are more expensive, more than two taels are the most expensive, there are five levels of price in total, yours is the best, I will charge you twice as much as one tael, this will be 72 yuan for you Silver dollar, look good."

72 silver dollars, Alcani froze on the spot.

He remembered visiting the good things in the opener's warehouse when he left Drive, and even memorized the prices of some things.

For example, an iron pot costs three silver dollars each, two for an axe, two for a butcher's knife, and two for a machete.

Salt costs one silver dollar per bucket, and cotton cloth costs six yuan per bolt.

Tea bricks, each weighing four catties, four silver dollars, a bucket of white sugar six silver dollars, shredded tobacco, two silver dollars per catty.One silver dollar for five catties of rice wine.

A flagon and a silver dollar.Tin basins one piece at a time.Eight magnetic soup bowls, one piece, ten magnetic rice bowls, one piece, three water buckets, one piece.

Those things are good things in Alkani's opinion, and the price is not bad.

Mr. Zhu is going to pay 72 silver dollars for a musk, and he can't figure it out for a while. How many good things can he exchange for?
Iron pot is a good thing, easy to use for cooking.

Evanni people often eat raw meat. Venison and fish can be eaten raw as long as they are killed on the same day.

For an iron pot worth three yuan, you can buy twenty more, and you can buy twelve buckets of salt, one bucket of salt is a bag, and the quality of the salt is very good, snow white.

Other tea, tobacco, alcohol, white sugar, brown sugar, axes, knives, shovels, hammers, rope bags, etc., as well as cotton linen are also very good.

Although they have fur, they are very warm in winter, but they are not comfortable in summer.

"It's not worth anything." Alkany swallowed. Tribal people are often self-sufficient, and they don't pay too much attention to their lives, but they are also limited by conditions. They will also trade with outsiders, exchanging fur, etc. for salt, etc. .

It's just so inconvenient.

They want everything that Daming shipped.

He never imagined that a sachet of musk deer could be worth so much money.

"How about 75 yuan?" Zhu Rongjie raised the price.

Alkany hesitated for a while, and finally decided to sell, "Ten yuan, it can be exchanged for three iron pots."

"Or is it still 72 yuan?"

"Less."

The two started a magical bargain there, buying at a high price and selling at a low price.Both parties felt that the other was at a disadvantage, and in the end it was Zhu Rongjie who set the price, buying the sachet for 30 silver dollars at the price of ten iron pots. "

He also counted silver dollars for him on the spot.

Alkany felt a little dreamy holding the handful of silver dollars, ten iron pots, just for such a small thing, he just shot a musk deer on the way.

This iron pot has to be mined, smelted, ironed, and cast, so much labor and skills are required, but he just shot an arrow.

Zhu Rongjie carefully put away the sachet, such a big sachet, after simple processing, brought back to the Central Plains, in Beijing, Tianjin or Fengtian, it was worth 200 silver dollars, and now he exchanged it for 30 silver dollars of.

And for the 30 silver dollars, next time Alkany will go to Qudumei to exchange them for commodities. Just the iron pot, which sells for three silver dollars each. In fact, their purchase price is three silver dollars per bite, and two small iron pots. It's only one penny and six.

It is sold at ten times the price of Diandumei.

Basically, the goods brought by the development fleet are sold at least ten times higher.

But after all, it was shipped nearly ten thousand miles away, especially Evanni and others could not buy these goods before, and the price offered by the pioneering company to buy their fur is still good, so they don't think it is expensive, but they think it is a good deal. of.

Just like now, a musk sold ten large iron pots for the money, and he thought it was too profitable.

Both parties are very happy with the deal.

Alkani happily began to divide the musk deer while it was hot, cut a large piece of fresh meat from the deer leg, and handed it directly to Zhu Rongjie.

"Hot, fresh and delicious."

In winter, the trick for the Evanni people to survive the winter is to eat more raw meat and less time to go out. When young and strong men go out to hunt, they will cut up their prey immediately after catching them, and eat large pieces of raw meat to replenish their nutrition and strength.

He then handed over the deerskin to Zhu Rongjie. In his opinion, the 30 silver dollars also included the skin and flesh of the musk deer.

Zhu Rongjie took a piece of leg meat, chewed it a few mouthfuls and found it very fishy, ​​Alkany beat another bone, took out a piece of bone marrow and handed it to him, saying it was a good thing.Zhu Rongjie took it, but when he put it in his mouth, it tasted like chewing gum, especially the greasy feeling that made people feel sick, so he had no choice but to try his best to suppress this feeling, and swallowed hard.

He didn't want to be rude, but wanted to learn from these natives and adapt to the customs here as soon as possible.

But in the end, he took a bite out of it, took a piece of fresh pork ribs, took it into the canopy of his sleigh, put it in a frying pan on the stove, added water and simmered it slowly, and when he rested at night, he could eat delicious stewed roe deer lined up.

The other Evanni people in the team were eating raw meat while it was hot with knives, and they were very happy to eat it. Zhu Rongjie and the pioneer team only ate a small piece each, and then looked forward to the stewed ribs.

"Bear barking!"

"There are bears."

Baierko shouted excitedly. He was also very envious when he saw Alcani shoot a musk roe just now, and he got ten pots of silver. As a tribal sharpshooter, he Very excited.

It's finally time to show off.

"Let's go together!" Alkani came over and said to the neighbor partner in the mother's clan.

The Evanni people all gathered around to say that they would hunt the bear together. Normally, they might not be interested in hunting bears, but today they all wanted to capture the bear.

Baierke also came over and asked Zhu Rongjie, "Do you want a brown bear?"

Zhu Rongjie smiled and said, "Bear skin, bear bile, and bear paws are all good things, especially bear bile."

Hearing the price he offered, Baierke and others became even more excited. They didn't expect this bear to be so valuable.

"Need our help hunting bears? We have muskets!"

Baierke and the others wanted to hunt by themselves, but they were a little embarrassed to refuse. In the end, they reluctantly agreed.It is also said that it is good to shoot the bear's head or belly as much as possible to ensure the integrity of the bear's skin, and not to destroy the skin with random shooting.

Zhu Rongjie agreed to everything, and he couldn't wait to participate in the hunt.

Bringing net ropes, clips, muskets, and spears, they all headed towards the roar of the bear. A group of Evanni hunters, and then a team of Han pioneers, plus a few Jurchen hunters recruited in Yongning City, soon followed the bear. Footprints found the bear, which somehow didn't hibernate but ran out and barked.

The big brown bear with rough skin and thick flesh is no match for this group of hunters. They drove and surrounded them. Before Baierke could find the best time, Zhu Rongjie took a heavy nine-headed bird and aimed at the side for a long time. Bu Yuan fired a gun from the mouth of the big bear that stood up and roared. The lead bullets of the heavy gun were also oversized, and the big brown bear that weighed a thousand catties was knocked down with one gun.

Killed with one shot.

There was a boom like an upside-down jade pillar from Jinshan Mountain, and the snow on the trembling trees fell down.

Korbai's bow was already full, but he was the first to get there. He was a little annoyed, but he was secretly shocked by the power of the large firecracker. A seemingly weak Han official ended up killing a thousand-jin big brown bear with one bludgeon. .

And if they were replaced by them, no matter how good a sharpshooter was, it would be impossible to kill them with just one or two arrows.

"Hurry up to peel the skin, take the bile, and take the bear's paw." Alkani's voice woke him up, and he put away his bow and arrows in frustration, and followed his tribe to deal with the brown bear.

"Let's eat bear meat tonight." A pioneer team member said.

Alkany said, "Bear meat is not tasty. It is smelly and dirty. Even if you eat it cooked, you will have diarrhea after eating it. After eating bear meat, you will not only have diarrhea, but also get oily on your body. If you hunt this stuff, you will usually have diarrhea." It was brought back to feed the dogs."

Zhu Rongjie laughed and said, "It's too wasteful to feed the dog. This is bear meat. It doesn't matter if it smells bad. First soak it in water for a while, then add peppercorns and aniseed ingredients to stew it, and marinate it again. It will definitely not smell bad again. taste."

Eating bear meat is prone to diarrhea and oiliness. The main reason is that bears are thick in fat. Most people are prone to diarrhea after eating it, especially those who have no oil in their stomachs. Suddenly eating bear meat will definitely cause diarrhea.

But after stewing or marinating more, it's okay to eat less at a time.

Such a good thing, how can ordinary people have the opportunity to eat it, and they must not let it go when they come across it.

Chinese prickly ash aniseed pepper powder, miso soy sauce and cooking wine, are you afraid that it will not taste good?Zhu Rongjie and others are very confident.

(End of this chapter)